Glad to see this happening, though the StarLabs offering (StarFighter) is superior to this with more ram, better screen, better web cam, and larger battery.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: sarmadI know you are just stating your opinion, and I was just telling you that your opinion is wrong. This is a gaming device, not a military equipment in order to think it should be banned on certain countries. People in the west should really quit this mentality of punishing populations for the mistakes of their governments.

Well, the thought is that these (western) countries cannot really do much against some "governments", but unhappy citizens might.
(I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, I don't know.)

I mean, hey, the only place that strategy didn't eventually work was Cuba.

Well, and Iran, and Venezuela, and Russia, and Syria, and Iraq, and North Korea, and . . . actually, has there ever been a place where sanctions DID turn the population against the government? After all, the first move of most bad governments is to find some enemy to point to and claim all the country's problems are because of them, and so any dissent is being a quisling for the enemy. US sanctions sure make that move easy and plausible and to some extent even true.
To be fair, I don't think that's the point of US sanctions in the first place. The point of US sanctions is to crush a country and its people so bad that nobody wants to be next. Which is evil, but not pointless because I think it does work fairly well.

It works, but it has consequences that current US politicians ignore because they know it will eventually be someone else that needs to deal with them; the consequences of the US accumulating bad reputation around the world over the years. For example, in the middle east the US reputation has become so bad that the easiest way for a middle eastern politician to gain local popularity is by simply becoming anti-US, or just pretending to be. Granted, in the ME the US has done way more than just sanctions, but sanctions are still a big factor.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

I, for one, will never consider a certain "People's Republic" to be the legitimate government of the beautiful land they currently tyrannize! I won't mention it by name, as I've seen how vindictive their hired script-kiddies can be. Not only that, but I have a family member who was a U.S. Marine stationed there after WW2.

No one should support genocide. I pray for the U's every night.

Yes, I would have preferred that SYS had lived; CKS led a very unstable government that was little better than the current one, but at least it was sort of Democratic! Far better than what they got. Not for nothing, but at least SYS was a decent Cristian (bigamy aside). CKS was a devout but hypocritical one. Both are better than that imbecile currently in power.

That said, I assume most gamers from there aren't very political, so I do feel somewhat upset for them. But then, extremely few use Linux there when so many machines run warez copies of Windows, from what I understand. The deck probably isn't even on their radar.

No excuse for India though. Valve should've released it there, that's an enormous market to miss.

I can assure you that Valve doesn't care, and shouldn't care, about your political point of view, and that the reason they aren't selling in China yet is either logistics or technical related. Just a matter of time before they start selling there too.

Of course they don't! I never said anything about them caring. Didn't mean to ruffle feathers. :smile:

I just felt it needed to be said. My opinion isn't worth the price of tea in a certain place! :tongue:

As my psychology teacher once said: "Opinions are like ***holes. Everyone has one, and generally, no one wants to hear about anyone else's." he was a really great guy.

I know you are just stating your opinion, and I was just telling you that your opinion is wrong. This is a gaming device, not a military equipment in order to think it should be banned on certain countries. People in the west should really quit this mentality of punishing populations for the mistakes of their governments.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

I, for one, will never consider a certain "People's Republic" to be the legitimate government of the beautiful land they currently tyrannize! I won't mention it by name, as I've seen how vindictive their hired script-kiddies can be. Not only that, but I have a family member who was a U.S. Marine stationed there after WW2.

No one should support genocide. I pray for the U's every night.

Yes, I would have preferred that SYS had lived; CKS led a very unstable government that was little better than the current one, but at least it was sort of Democratic! Far better than what they got. Not for nothing, but at least SYS was a decent Cristian (bigamy aside). CKS was a devout but hypocritical one. Both are better than that imbecile currently in power.

That said, I assume most gamers from there aren't very political, so I do feel somewhat upset for them. But then, extremely few use Linux there when so many machines run warez copies of Windows, from what I understand. The deck probably isn't even on their radar.

No excuse for India though. Valve should've released it there, that's an enormous market to miss.

I can assure you that Valve doesn't care, and shouldn't care, about your political point of view, and that the reason they aren't selling in China yet is either logistics or technical related. Just a matter of time before they start selling there too.

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If only System76 focuses on what the company was established for, which is building Linux laptops. They still don't offer laptops that aren't just a re-brand. They still don't have any laptop with AMD or Intel dGPU. They still don't have a laptop with a build quality that matches the likes of high end laptops. Instead of focusing on these areas, which is their core business, they are now spending their efforts on keyboards and PopOS. There are plenty of keyboards, planety of distros, and plenty of desktop environments that you can easy find elsewhere. What the Linux community needs is better laptop options.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: rustigsmedyes have to agree, although I would go Kubuntu rather than ubuntu, and would probably suggest Pop!_OS if nVidia is involved and you were ok with the de.

The only Nvidia advantage for Pop is if your GPU/monitor combination means that the open source nouveau can't set the resolution properly (the black screen with the blinking cursor - for which there's a fix, but it is something that one would have to specifically learn about), which isn't all combinations and will hopefully become fewer as nouveau improves and the open source module from Nvidia matures.

Every modern distro can install the proprietary Nvidia driver as part of the installation process (just like Pop does), they just don't use the proprietary Nvidia driver in the installer environment (which Pop does).

Once the distro is installed, it's all the same.

Err no, the big advantage of pop is if you have an integrated graphics card (say Intel) PLUS a discrete Nvidia GPU. With pop you can use it like you would on win (proprietary Nvidia drivers included) : use one, the other, or both at the same time, and mix and match with screens over dp, HDMI, USB-C etc. Everything works out of the box with a nice switch on the desktop if you want to say disable the discrete GPU to save battery.

Good luck with any other distribution, been there done that (eventually sold the laptop and sweared never again tbh)

Ubuntu handles it the same way, and I'm guessing most of what Pop provides in terms of nVidia is actually inherited from Ubuntu. The only thing Pop adds is the ability to switch the GPU from the Gnome main menu whereas in Ubuntu you have do it from the nVidia control panel.

The best experience with nVidia I've had is with my current MSI GS66 laptop, which has the internal screen and the display port both connected to the iGPU rather than the dGPU, so the dGPU is only used when a game is running and only renders to back buffers. This is the only way to have a flawless experience with hybrid GPUs on Linux.

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Quoting: CatKillerWe can compare them directly now that the Deck GPU shows up in the global stats. The Decks represent 0.37% of the machines sampled for the survey (from the GPU list)

An interesting figure in itself. So like, Linux is at 1.44%. And Steam Decks, almost entirely running Linux, are 0.37% (and climbing). So that means Linux without Steam Deck is 1.07%, and the Steam Deck represents just over a quarter of total Linux use on Steam.
At this point, the Deck is already giving Linux use a substantial boost. And as I understand it, for the first few months of release sales were significantly constrained by manufacturing capacity; they're faster now. If sales continue at the present rate, that's probably at least 0.5% per year and quite likely more. Which, put like that, doesn't sound like a whole lot--but it agrees with Gradyvuckovic's take that Steam Deck could take Linux Steam usage over Mac by 2024.
It's certainly way faster growth than Linux gaming has ever seen.

It should be sooner than that. You are counting 0.5% per year, but Steam Deck sales at the beginning of this year wasn't as big, so the 0.5 figure isn't accurate. If we go by October's numbers: (2.45 - 1.44) / (1.44 - 1.28) = 7 months or so. So, if the current pace continues we should see Linux overtaking macOS in July 2023.

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Quoting: CreakOh shoot, just discovered that I actually disabled SELinux a long time ago! I'll try and reactivate it, at least on permissive for now

Haha... that's a good example why SELinux is less secure than AppArmor, it's too complicated that people tend to simply disable it. I used to disable it as well. SELinux is one of the reasons I stay away from Fedora.

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That's the right recommendation. People who can find their way through in distros other than Ubuntu are usually people who don't need recommendations anyway; they can make their own decisions. Those who ask for the recommendation are usually the ones who are new to Linux and therefore it's good to recommend Ubuntu to them.

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What's with the "Sexual Content" label? 🤔

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